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– Concealer
– MAC MSF Natural or MUFE Face & Body, whichever is closer and easiest in the moment.
– LOADS of mascara. Currently, I have been using L’Oreal Voluminous Million Lashes.
– Shape & Fill in brows with MAC Charcoal Brown.
– BLUSH! Seriously, I need color on my face if I’m wearing this little makeup.
– If time remains, I tightline my upper lashline.
– I’m usually running out of the house as I apply a lip product of some sort.

Concealer, powder, and mascara are the essentials. Foundation instead of concealer if my skin is acting up. Sometimes I’ll put a bronze shadow on my lid and in my crease and add a touch of blush since I’m so pale. Lip products can always be put on later.

Usually I’m “all or nothing” with makeup. I don’t like to just do it halfway, so if I don’t have at least 15 or 20 minutes I usually won’t bother. Unless I’m having a particularly bad skin day (like now), I’m usually fine with just something to control the oil like Smashbox Anti Shine. But in five minutes, if I had to, I could probably do BB cream, powder, brows, cream eyeshadow, mascara and a lip butter. They’re all pretty quick steps and I could still get a full look out of it.

My five minute face consists of foundation, blush, concealer, brow pencil, and something on my lips (could be lipstick, gloss, stain, or balm). If that doesn’t take five minutes, I’ll tight-line with black pencil liner and curl my lashes. I put a travel makeup bag in my purse or backpack so if I have time for makeup later, I can put on some eyeshadow, mascara, and/or whatever I think I need.

Usually I have no five-minute face… I have a five-second outfit and then I take my time doing my makeup as usual. Some days, though, I’m just too tired/uninterested to think about it. Those days it’s the Stila Correcting Primer, lip balm, and black eyeliner. That’s it.

Neutrogena Black Brown volumizing mascara on my eyebrows, as well as dark brown NYX or Revlon brow powder and/or Bobbi Brown Brow Pencil in Mohagany. My brows are messed up :(( (only partially recovered from years of messing them up trying to fix the continually eroding shape myself)–if my brows are done I feel comfortable, next comes lipstick/lip tint or chapstick, then if there’s still time a swipe of black pencil eyeliner on the lash line and lower waterline…

I don’t have a five-minute face, since my skin isn’t the best and I need at least that long for foundation and concealing. I could do foundation, concealer, mascara and blusher in under ten though – that would be my minimal makeup.

Foundation or TM, brown pencil eyeliner (I’d rather forgo eyeshadow than eyeliner), mascara, blush, sheer lipstick or lipgloss.
If I have an extra minute, I’ll throw in a cream shadow; if I’m running really, really late, I’ll leave out the eyeliner and blush – that’s more of a two-minute face!

Foundation with the 187, strobe cream on cheekbones and temples, set it with MSFN, Benefit Benetint on cheeks. Filling in brows, Urban Decay Sin on the lid, smudge MAC sketch on the upper and lower lashline and one or two coats of mascara. Some Nymphette lipglass and I’m good to go.

For me a five-minute face is a naked face. I can’t possibly do something useful makeup wise in only five minutes. I would put concealer on my blemishes (if I have any), but to me that doesn’t really count as wearing makeup.

primer done beforehand while running around, then tm/foundation, setting powder, blush, highlighter, lipstick on the go. usually this is my work routine in which i skip mascara because my eyes are watery from yawning…

Sadly, my foundation/concealer makes a five-minute face impossible- it takes about 10 minutes to cover up all my acne scarring. After that, though, I can be done in five minutes. Eye primer, MAC Brule washed from lashline to brows, MAC Wedge in crease, MAC Print smudged around eyes (instead of eyeliner), black eyeliner on the inner rims. Mascara, brows, touch of blush or bronzer, nude lips, and done.

Tinted moisturizer, concealer, MAC Honesty e/s all over lid, MAC Boutique Brown in the crease, eyeliner, mascara and I’ll toss a cheek stain and lip gloss into my bag. Usually I can do this in three minutes with two minutes to spare to put on my shoes and get myself out the door!

In five minutes I can finish: brows, top lid of eyeliner with inner white corner, brow high lighter, a dusting of powder for under eye circles (and to even out redness on my nose around allergy season), and then I’ll pop a mascara in my purse for later (if I remember).
And even then…sometimes that can take longer than 5 minutes, depends on how awake I am.

I like to put music and take my time for makeup. It’s a relaxing and enjoyable moment. If I don’t feel like taking my time, I go out without makeup. At all. And I can speed up my process as much as I want. If I have 5 minutes, I’ll just skip concealer and eyeliner. I never put lipstick. The rest stays.
-MAC MSF natural in Medium plus
-Clinique brow powder
-Too Faced face palette bronzer
-Any blush (Benefit Hervana, Coralista, Korres Natural, NARS Orgasm…)
-Benefit eyeshadow in Nice melons as a highlighter

My five minute face which is usually the time it takes. I guess it has something to do with little to no acne scarring and building small amounts rather than piling on at once. But it’s usually:
1. Primer
2. If I decide for liquid Revlon Colorstay for face and undereye in two different colors; small drops (maybe pea size and a lot smaller for undereye)with 109 then set with MSFN(very lightly in t-zone and undereye). Otherwise only MSFN all over.
3. Blush(9.93/10 it’s MAC Eversun)
4. MAC Fix+ (must have for me when wearing anything on my face)
5. Mascara (loads)
6. Maybe Eyeliner
7. Lipstick(Revlon Gentleman loves Pink or Viva Glam V or L’oreal Balm Mauve)
And that’s all folks!!!